We lost the first attempt after five minutes of recording. Losing a podcast is not hilarious. I’ve lost podcasts about Equilibrium and Barry Gordie’s The Last Dragon because I thought it was recording when it wasn’t. I lost the first attempt at Killer Klowns from Outer Space and the first attempt at Gunhed because of recording programs crashing irrevocably. It’s no fun.

For the record, Die Hard With a Vengeance was rated R and would still be rated R today on account of language and Bruce Willis wearing that signboard. Gerald presumably meant to say Live Free or Die Hard, which was rated PG-13. On the PG front, I saw Weekend at Bernie’s 2 in the theater with my mom on opening weekend, and I have zero recollection of the brief nudity. Presumably because no awkward moment must have ensued afterwards.

Your notion that “the PG sequel to the R original movie is better” is a great lie of this world, sir. That you KNOW that one need only observe the level of Jones degradation as proof–from James Earl to Grace–makes the position all the more disturbing. Yes, Major League II gave us the Japanese guy, but it ALSO established that Omar Epps is the guy you hire when you can’t get Wesley Snipes. You’re free to keep on thinking your misguided, misbegotten thoughts about how sanitizing the R rated action movie or comedy by way of kid-friendly sequels is good. But know this: Jason Statham is gonna drive a car and kill YOU thanks to subsidies from Tyler Perry and Saw movies.

I think I only saw this film partially once someplace but thankfully not the whole thing, and hearing about it, it was probably for the best I didn’t. My memories of the first movie was far better anyway. The only rather horrible thing those guy ever did to a dead body in the first film was placing Bernie’s hair or toupee on his head with a staple gun! For a PG film, it’s interesting what they did get away with there (I do miss brief nudity in PG films myself). I can see how Europe would go over for this anyway versus the prudish Americana we’re so use to.

Sad to hear of that hotel in the film being abandoned. Looking online, it looks like the Wyndham Group owns the property but hasn’t laid a finger on it at all, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole thing gets razed if it came to that. Still for Gerald’s part, it must be something to have your memories of St. Thomas mixed in with this film.